August 1, 2014, Release of Get on Up
August 1, 2014, Season 4 Premiere of The Killing
August 1, 2014, Operation Protective Edge: A 72 hour ceasefire brokered by the UN and USA which began at 08:00 falls apart after an Israeli soldier is kidnapped and several killed during a suicide bomber attack at 09:30. The UN and USA strongly condemn the attack. The ceasefire was cancelled. (Times of Israel)
August 1, 2014, Season 4 Premiere of The Killing
August 1, 2014, Operation Protective Edge: A 72 hour ceasefire brokered by the UN and USA which began at 08:00 falls apart after an Israeli soldier is kidnapped and several killed during a suicide bomber attack at 09:30. The UN and USA strongly condemn the attack. The ceasefire was cancelled. (Times of Israel)
August 1, 2014,
August 1, 2014, Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014
The Constitutional Court of Uganda rules the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014 invalid. (BBC News)
August 1, 2014, 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak: Liberia and Sierra Leone declare a state of emergency in response to the Ebola virus disease by sending in troops and ordering the closure of schools and markets and the quarantining of affected communities. (Reuters)
August 2, 2014, Season 4 Premiere of Hell on Wheels
August 2, 2014, 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict: Israel Defense Forces declare that the Israeli solider previously believed to have been captured by Hamas fighters in Rafah had in fact been killed in battle that day and his body taken. (CBC)
August 3, 2014, 2014 Northern Iraq offensive: The Islamic State seizes the Yazidi-dominated town of Sinjar. (BBC)
-It also seized control of the Mosul Dam, which is Iraq's biggest dam, the Ain Zalah oil field, and two more towns. (Reuters)
-It also seized control of the Mosul Dam, which is Iraq's biggest dam, the Ain Zalah oil field, and two more towns. (Reuters)
August 3, 2014, The Bank of Portugal takes control of Banco Espirito Santo SA in a 4.9 billion bailout package. (Bloomberg via Business Week)
August 3, 2014, A magnitude 6.1 earthquake kills at least 367 people and injures more than 1,700 in Yunnan, China. (BBC)
August 3, 2014, In a joint ceremony at the Hartmannswillerkopf cemetery, French President François Hollande and his German counterpart, Joachim Gauck, commemorate the 100th anniversary of Germany's declaration of war on France in the beginning of World War I. (France24)
August 4, 2014, Series Premiere of Partners
August 4, 2014, Series Premiere of Partners
August 4, 2014, The United Kingdom commemorates the 100th anniversary of its declaration of war against Germany in the First World War. (The Independent)
August 4, 2014, 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict:
Israel and Hamas enter a 72-hour ceasefire brokered by Egypt. (Reuters)
August 4, 2014,
August 4, 2014,
August 4, 2014,
August 4, 2014, 2014 Ludian earthquake: China dispatches 2,500 People's Liberation Army soldiers to Yunnan province to search for hundreds of people missing after the earthquake. (BBC)
August 4, 2014, 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak: The World Health Organisation estimates that the death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak has risen to 887. (AP via Washington Post)
August 4, 2014, The first US–Africa Leaders Summit begins today in Washington, D.C. (VoA News)
August 5, 2014, War in Afghanistan: A U.S. major general is killed, and a German brigadier general and several American troops are among the 15 wounded, in a attack by an Afghan soldier gunman- who was killed by Afghan soldiers- at Kabul's Marshal Fahim National Defense University. The deceased major general is one of the U.S.'s highest-ranking soldiers lost since September 11, 2001. (MSN)
August 5, 2014, War in Afghanistan: A U.S. major general is killed, and a German brigadier general and several American troops are among the 15 wounded, in a attack by an Afghan soldier gunman- who was killed by Afghan soldiers- at Kabul's Marshal Fahim National Defense University. The deceased major general is one of the U.S.'s highest-ranking soldiers lost since September 11, 2001. (MSN)
August 5, 2014,
August 5, 2014,
August 5, 2014,
August 5, 2014,
August 5, 2014,
August 5, 2014,
August 5, 2014,
August 5, 2014,
August 5, 2014,
August 5, 2014, 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict: Israeli ground forces will leave the Gaza Strip ahead of an Egyptian mediated ceasefire starting at 0500 GMT today. (Reuters)
August 5, 2014, The Russian consumer protection agency, Rospotrebnadzor, adds Kentucky Gentleman to a growing list of imports banned, saying that this Bourbon whiskey
includes "additives that can cause functional and eventually organic
changes in the central and peripheral nervous systems, the endocrine
system, as well as cause cancer and problems with infertility in men and
women." (Los Angeles Times)
August 5, 2014, A 5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the town of Orkney, near Johannesburg in South Africa, killing one person and injuring 17. (ABC News)
August 5, 2014, Renowned Japanese scientist Yoshiki Sasai commits suicide, after the discrediting of certain experimental results he supervised, regarding stem cells. (Reuters)
August 6, 2014, Europe's Rosetta space probe reaches the distant 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko to orbit it and eventually land. (BBC)
August 6, 2014, 2014 Pacific hurricane season: The US island state of Hawaii prepares for the potential impact of Hurricane Iselle on Thursday and Tropical Storm Julio on Sunday. (AP)
August 6, 2014,
August 6, 2014, Russia bans all United States agricultural products, European Union fruit and vegetable imports in response to Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukrainian crisis. (RT)
August 6, 2014, American electronics company Apple Inc. and Korean company Samsung Electronics agree to end their patent litigation outside the United States. (IDG via Network World)
August 6, 2014, 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak: The World Health Organisation reports that 932 have died from the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus with a man reportedly dying of the disease in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia after a business trip to Sierra Leone. (CNN)
August 7, 2014, Series Premiere of Black Jesus
August 7, 2014,
August 7, 2014, The President of the United States, Barack Obama, delivers a statement promising increased humanitarian and military assistance including air strikes. (NBC News)
August 7, 2014, 2014 Pacific hurricane season: Residents in the US state of Hawaii prepare for the impact of Hurricane Iselle expected to hit the island of Hawaii as a Category 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm when it hits the islands of Maui and Oahu. (AP via Yahoo! News)
August 7, 2014,
August 7, 2014, 2014 West Africa ebola outbreak: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia, declares a state of emergency over the outbreak which has claimed the lives of 282 Liberian people so far. (BBC)
August 8, 2014, Release of 100 Foot Journey
August 8, 2014, Release of Into the Storm
August 8, 2014, Release of Step Up All In
August 8, 2014, Series Premiere of The Knick
August 8, 2014, 2014 Iraq conflict:
-U.S. F/A-18 fighters bomb ISIS artillery units and a military convoy. (CNN)
-Iraqi airstrikes kill 45 Islamic State fighters and injure 60. (CNN)
-The United Nations says the persecution of the Yazidi by ISIS may be genocide. (Christian Science Monitor)
August 8, 2014, In a case brought by a group of former NCAA athletes, U.S. District Court judge Claudia Wilken rules that the NCAA violated antitrust law by restricting the compensation that college athletes can receive for their publicity rights. (ESPN)
August 8, 2014,
August 8, 2014,
August 8, 2014, The recent death of James Brady, former press secretary to Ronald Reagan, is classified as a homicide 33 years after Brady was shot by John W. Hinckley. (Washington Post)
August 8, 2014, 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak: The World Health Organisation states that the Ebola virus outbreak is an international public health emergency. (AP via Fox News)
-Nigeria becomes the third African nation to declare a state of emergency over the outbreak. (ABC News Australia)
August 8, 2014, Ukraine’s government picks 172 individuals and 65 companies that will face sanctions for "support and financing of terrorism" or responsible for crimes on country’s territory during the pro-Russian unrest. (Kyiv Post)
August 9, 2014, Series Premiere of Outlander
August 9, 2014, In auto racing, NASCAR driver Tony Stewart runs over 20-year-old driver Kevin Ward, Jr. during a sprint car race in northern New York. Ward was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. (Sporting News)
August 10, 2014, Michael Brown incident in Ferguson, MO: Protests about police shooting a teenager on Saturday in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson turn ugly with looting and vandalism. (CNN)
August 10, 2014,
August 10, 2014, Typhoon Halong makes landfall on Shikoku in Japan with warnings of the potential of flooding and landslides with at least 39 people killed and nine injured. (AFP via SBS)
August 10, 2014, In golf, world number one Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins the PGA Championship. It is his second consecutive major championship win, following The Open Championship, his second PGA Championship win, and fourth major overall. (AP via ESPN)
August 11, 2014, Oscar-winning American comedic actor Robin Williams is found dead at age 63 by asphyxiation. (MSN)
August 11, 2014, Iraqi insurgency (2011–present): Iraq's embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says that he will file a legal complaint against President Fuad Masum for opposing Maliki's reappointment. (AP)
August 11, 2014, 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict: A 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas begins, and talks aimed at finding a long-term solution to the conflict commence in Cairo. (Haaretz)
August 12, 2014,
August 12, 2014,
August 12, 2014,
August 12, 2014, 2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak: The death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak passes 1,000. (Reuters via Hindustan Times)
-A Spanish priest dies of the virus in Spain despite being treated with ZMapp, an experimental treatment. (CNN)
August 12, 2014, The sale of the Los Angeles Clippers NBA team to ex-CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer has been completed. (Huffington Post)
August 13, 2014, Release of Let's Be Cops
August 13, 2014, Series Premiere of Legends
August 13, 2014, Shooting of Michael Brown: Protests against the shooting of Michael Brown by the Ferguson Police Department in the US state of Missouri turn violent. (AP)
August 6, 2014, Europe's Rosetta space probe reaches the distant 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko to orbit it and eventually land. (BBC)
August 6, 2014, 2014 Pacific hurricane season: The US island state of Hawaii prepares for the potential impact of Hurricane Iselle on Thursday and Tropical Storm Julio on Sunday. (AP)
August 6, 2014,
August 6, 2014, Russia bans all United States agricultural products, European Union fruit and vegetable imports in response to Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukrainian crisis. (RT)
August 6, 2014, American electronics company Apple Inc. and Korean company Samsung Electronics agree to end their patent litigation outside the United States. (IDG via Network World)
August 6, 2014, 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak: The World Health Organisation reports that 932 have died from the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus with a man reportedly dying of the disease in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia after a business trip to Sierra Leone. (CNN)
August 7, 2014, Series Premiere of Black Jesus
August 7, 2014,
August 7, 2014, The President of the United States, Barack Obama, delivers a statement promising increased humanitarian and military assistance including air strikes. (NBC News)
August 7, 2014, 2014 Pacific hurricane season: Residents in the US state of Hawaii prepare for the impact of Hurricane Iselle expected to hit the island of Hawaii as a Category 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm when it hits the islands of Maui and Oahu. (AP via Yahoo! News)
August 7, 2014,
August 7, 2014, 2014 West Africa ebola outbreak: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia, declares a state of emergency over the outbreak which has claimed the lives of 282 Liberian people so far. (BBC)
August 8, 2014, Release of 100 Foot Journey
August 8, 2014, Release of Into the Storm
August 8, 2014, Release of Step Up All In
August 8, 2014, Series Premiere of The Knick
August 8, 2014, 2014 Iraq conflict:
-U.S. F/A-18 fighters bomb ISIS artillery units and a military convoy. (CNN)
-Iraqi airstrikes kill 45 Islamic State fighters and injure 60. (CNN)
-The United Nations says the persecution of the Yazidi by ISIS may be genocide. (Christian Science Monitor)
August 8, 2014, In a case brought by a group of former NCAA athletes, U.S. District Court judge Claudia Wilken rules that the NCAA violated antitrust law by restricting the compensation that college athletes can receive for their publicity rights. (ESPN)
August 8, 2014,
August 8, 2014,
August 8, 2014, The recent death of James Brady, former press secretary to Ronald Reagan, is classified as a homicide 33 years after Brady was shot by John W. Hinckley. (Washington Post)
August 8, 2014, 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak: The World Health Organisation states that the Ebola virus outbreak is an international public health emergency. (AP via Fox News)
-Nigeria becomes the third African nation to declare a state of emergency over the outbreak. (ABC News Australia)
August 8, 2014, Ukraine’s government picks 172 individuals and 65 companies that will face sanctions for "support and financing of terrorism" or responsible for crimes on country’s territory during the pro-Russian unrest. (Kyiv Post)
August 9, 2014, Series Premiere of Outlander
August 9, 2014, In auto racing, NASCAR driver Tony Stewart runs over 20-year-old driver Kevin Ward, Jr. during a sprint car race in northern New York. Ward was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. (Sporting News)
August 10, 2014, Michael Brown incident in Ferguson, MO: Protests about police shooting a teenager on Saturday in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson turn ugly with looting and vandalism. (CNN)
August 10, 2014,
August 10, 2014, Typhoon Halong makes landfall on Shikoku in Japan with warnings of the potential of flooding and landslides with at least 39 people killed and nine injured. (AFP via SBS)
August 10, 2014, In golf, world number one Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins the PGA Championship. It is his second consecutive major championship win, following The Open Championship, his second PGA Championship win, and fourth major overall. (AP via ESPN)
August 11, 2014, Oscar-winning American comedic actor Robin Williams is found dead at age 63 by asphyxiation. (MSN)
August 11, 2014, Iraqi insurgency (2011–present): Iraq's embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says that he will file a legal complaint against President Fuad Masum for opposing Maliki's reappointment. (AP)
August 11, 2014, 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict: A 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas begins, and talks aimed at finding a long-term solution to the conflict commence in Cairo. (Haaretz)
August 12, 2014,
August 12, 2014,
August 12, 2014,
August 12, 2014, 2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak: The death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak passes 1,000. (Reuters via Hindustan Times)
-A Spanish priest dies of the virus in Spain despite being treated with ZMapp, an experimental treatment. (CNN)
August 12, 2014, The sale of the Los Angeles Clippers NBA team to ex-CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer has been completed. (Huffington Post)
August 13, 2014, Release of Let's Be Cops
August 13, 2014, Series Premiere of Legends
August 13, 2014, Shooting of Michael Brown: Protests against the shooting of Michael Brown by the Ferguson Police Department in the US state of Missouri turn violent. (AP)
August 13, 2014,
August 13, 2014,
August 13, 2014,
August 13, 2014, Governor Eduardo Campos, a candidate in the upcoming Brazilian presidential election, dies in a plane crash in Santos, São Paulo together with six other people on board the aircraft. It also sparks a large fire (Reuters),
August 14, 2014, Release of The Expendables III
August 14, 2014, Release of The Expendables III
August 14, 2014,
August 14, 2014,
August 14, 2014,
August 14, 2014, Shooting of Michael Brown: The President of the United States Barack Obama orders an independent inquiry by the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown by the Ferguson Police Department. (Washington Post)
August 14, 2014, Pope Francis begins a five day visit to South Korea. (AFP, Reuters via Sydney Morning Herald)
August 14, 2014, 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict: Israel and Hamas agree upon a fresh five-day ceasefire. (BBC)
August 14, 2014, Iraqi insurgency (2011–present): The United Nations declares its highest state of emergency in Iraq following the advance of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (BBC)
-President Obama announces that U.S airstrikes broke the IS siege of Mount Sinjar, allowing thousands of Yazidi refugees to escape, and declares plans for further airstrikes against IS forces. (BBC)
August 15, 2014, Release of The Giver
August 15, 2014, Release of Hector and The Search for Happiness
-President Obama announces that U.S airstrikes broke the IS siege of Mount Sinjar, allowing thousands of Yazidi refugees to escape, and declares plans for further airstrikes against IS forces. (BBC)
August 15, 2014, Release of The Giver
August 15, 2014, Release of Hector and The Search for Happiness
August 15, 2014,
August 15, 2014, Texas Governor Rick Perry was indicted on felony charges for abuse of power. He was accused of coercing a District Attorney who had been convicted of drunk driving to resign by threatening to veto funding for state public corruption prosecutors. (ABC News)
August 15, 2014, A ceremony is held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal. (BBC)
August 15, 2014, Texas Governor Rick Perry was indicted on felony charges for abuse of power. He was accused of coercing a District Attorney who had been convicted of drunk driving to resign by threatening to veto funding for state public corruption prosecutors. (ABC News)
August 15, 2014, A ceremony is held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal. (BBC)
August 16, 2014, Shooting of Michael Brown: Governor Jay Nixon declares a state of emergency and curfew in the town of Ferguson, Missouri following nights of rioting. (USA Today)
August 16, 2014, Pope Francis beatifies 124 Korean Catholics who died for their beliefs in the 19th century in Seoul. (New York Times)
August 16, 2014, The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics open in the Chinese city of Nanjing. (Reuters)
August 16, 2014, Pope Francis beatifies 124 Korean Catholics who died for their beliefs in the 19th century in Seoul. (New York Times)
August 16, 2014, The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics open in the Chinese city of Nanjing. (Reuters)
August 17, 2014, Iraqi insurgency (2011–present: Kurdish forces, supported by U.S. airstrikes, retake control of the Mosul Dam after its capture by IS militants. (BBC)
August 17, 2014, Islamist insurgency in Nigeria: Chadian troops rescue 85 hostages from Boko Haram who had been kidnapped in Nigeria and taken over the border into Chad. (CNN)
August 17, 2014, 2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak: Protesters loot an Ebola quarantine centre in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, resulting in the escape of 17 patients and the theft of blood-stained bedding and medical equipment. (BBC)
August 18, 2014,
August 18, 2014,
August 20, 2014,
August 21, 2014,
August 21, 2014,
August 21, 2014,
August 21, 2014,
August 22, 2014, Release of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
August 22, 2014, Release of If I Stay
August 22, 2014, Release of When The Game Stands Tall
August 22, 2014, Series Premiere of BoJack Horseman
August 21, 2014,
August 21, 2014,
August 21, 2014,
August 21, 2014,
August 22, 2014, Release of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
August 22, 2014, Release of If I Stay
August 22, 2014, Release of When The Game Stands Tall
August 22, 2014, Series Premiere of BoJack Horseman
August 22, 2014,
August 22, 2014,
August 22, 2014,
August 23, 2014,
August 23, 2014,
August 23, 2014,
August 23, 2014,
August 23, 2014,
August 24, 2014,
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August 24, 2014,
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August 24, 2014,
August 25, 2014,
August 25, 2014,
August 25, 2014,
August 26, 2014, Release of The BoxTrolls
August 25, 2014,
August 25, 2014,
August 26, 2014, Release of The BoxTrolls
August 26, 2014, Fast food giant Burger King agrees to acquire Canadian coffee giant Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion and move its headquarters to Canada. (Bloomberg via Washington Post)
August 26, 2014,
August 27, 2014, Release of Birdman
August 27, 2014, Release of Birdman
August 27, 2014,
August 27, 2014,
August 27, 2014, An F-15 Eagle from the Massachusetts Air National Guard crashes in Deerfield, Virginia. (NBC News)
August 27, 2014,
August 27, 2014, An F-15 Eagle from the Massachusetts Air National Guard crashes in Deerfield, Virginia. (NBC News)
August 28, 2014, War in Donbass: The Armed Forces of Ukraine claim that pro-Russian separatists backed by Armed Forces of Russia tanks and armored personnel carriers are fighting its forces on two fronts. (CNN)
-The NATO officials state more than 1,000 Russian troops are operating in Ukraine as more air-defence systems, artillery, tanks and armoured personnel carriers are being delivered to pro-Russian insurgents. (The Financial Times)
August 28, 2014,
-The NATO officials state more than 1,000 Russian troops are operating in Ukraine as more air-defence systems, artillery, tanks and armoured personnel carriers are being delivered to pro-Russian insurgents. (The Financial Times)
August 28, 2014,
August 28, 2014, The Philippines economy grows by 6.4% in Q2 showing signs of recovery after it was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. (The Washington Post)
August 28, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Australia, Malaysia and the People's Republic of China
reach an agreement about the costs and direction of the ongoing search
for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 which is believed to
have crashed in the Indian Ocean southwest of Western Australia. (AP)
August 28, 2014, Sound supervisor Bryce Dion is accidently shot and killed by police
after being caught in the crossfire while working to film an episode for
the reality series Cops. (New York Times)
August 29, 2014, Release of As Above So Below
August 29, 2014, Release Maroon V album V
August 29, 2014, The United Kingdom raises its terror threat level from "substantial" to "severe" in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria. (BBC)
August 29, 2014, Mount Tavurvur, part of the Rabaul caldera near the town of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea's East New Britain province, erupts. (ABC News Australia)
August 29, 2014, Release Maroon V album V
August 29, 2014, The United Kingdom raises its terror threat level from "substantial" to "severe" in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria. (BBC)
August 29, 2014, Mount Tavurvur, part of the Rabaul caldera near the town of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea's East New Britain province, erupts. (ABC News Australia)
August 31, 2014, Release of November Man
August 31, 2014,
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